κάμηλος
See also: κάμιλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal) and Hebrew גָּמָל (gāmā́l).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.mɛː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.me̝.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.mi.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.mi.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.mi.los/
Noun
κᾰ́μηλος • (kámēlos) m or f (genitive κᾰμήλου); second declension
- camel
Declension
Second declension of ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́μηλος; τοῦ, τῆς κᾰμήλου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́μηλος ho, hē kámēlos | τὼ κᾰμήλω tṑ kamḗlō | οἱ, αἱ κᾰ́μηλοι hoi, hai kámēloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς κᾰμήλου toû, tês kamḗlou | τοῖν κᾰμήλοιν toîn kamḗloin | τῶν κᾰμήλων tôn kamḗlōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ κᾰμήλῳ tôi, têi kamḗlōi | τοῖν κᾰμήλοιν toîn kamḗloin | τοῖς, ταῖς κᾰμήλοις toîs, taîs kamḗlois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν κᾰ́μηλον tòn, tḕn kámēlon | τὼ κᾰμήλω tṑ kamḗlō | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κᾰμήλους toùs, tā̀s kamḗlous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰ́μηλε kámēle | κᾰμήλω kamḗlō | κᾰ́μηλοι kámēloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- καμηλάριος (kamēlários)
- καμηλασία (kamēlasía)
- καμηλάσιον (kamēlásion)
- καμηλάτης (kamēlátēs)
- καμήλειος (kamḗleios)
- καμηλέμπορος (kamēlémporos)
- καμηλίζω (kamēlízō)
- καμηλικός (kamēlikós)
- καμήλιον (kamḗlion)
- καμηλίτης (kamēlítēs)
- καμηλοβοσκός (kamēloboskós)
- καμηλοκόμος (kamēlokómos)
- καμηλοπάρδαλις (kamēlopárdalis)
- καμηλοπόδιον (kamēlopódion)
- καμηλοτροφέω (kamēlotrophéō)
- καμηλοτρόφος (kamēlotróphos)
- καμηλώδης (kamēlṓdēs)
- καμηλών (kamēlṓn)
Descendants
- → Latin: camēlus (see there for further descendants)
- → Sanskrit: क्रमेल (kramela)
- → Bengali: ক্রমেলক (krômelôk)
- → Hindi: क्रमेलक (kramelak)
Further reading
- “κάμηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάμηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάμηλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2574 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- camel idem, page 110.